I've missed a few Ottawa Senators games, so have not posted a game review for the Montreal game on Saturday and the Pittsburgh game on Monday. It seems that I'm not the only one who missed them, as the Senators themselves have failed to show up too.
The ‘highlights', if you can call them that, were mostly glorious Pittsburgh goals and some pretty quality saves from Johnson. The story's pr...

The Ottawa Sun front page this morning has a picture from last night's game with one word on it that says it all: Yay! The Ottawa Senators beat the Carolina Hurricane 3-2 last night and while the game was inconsistent and sometimes downright strange, it felt good to get a win.
The Carolina Hurricane are coming off 6 days worth of rest after travelling to Europe for two games where they took the...

The good news about the Senators' game last night against the Washington Capitals is that the team actually showed up. Although they lost in overtime with a late hot shot by Washington's prime hot shot Ovechkin, the team gets an A for effort for playing their best regular season game so far.
It's too early to press the panic button in Ottawa after a couple of lousy games, but let's face it: tho...

The Ottawa Senators fell to the Buffalo Sabres 2-1 in their season opener at home last night, in a game that was shaky at best. The Senators played without their star Centre, Jason Spezza, who was out with a groin injury and started Pascal Leclaire, who didn't look stellar in his pre-season outings. The absence of Jason Spezza was clearly felt on the score board, with one lone goal from Ottawa ...

The Battle of Ontario is alive and well. Even with a pre-season game, emotions were running high last night at ScotiaBank place, where a crowd of 15,000 fans, divided between virulent Leafs fans and the Sens Army, took in the action in a nail-biting finish that saw the Sens fall short. There were plenty of fisticuffs to report, some going unreported by the refs, and more than one questionable h...

The Toronto Maple Leafs showed why they are the Bay Street Bullies last night when they beat out the Ottawa Senators by a score of 4 to 1. Toronto clearly had something to prove last night to themselves and to their fans, and they rallied their troops to come back from their embarassing pre-season shutout loss. They called in their main guys for this one, demonstrating all the wisdom of using a...

The Toronto Maple Leafs team may look better on paper, but it didn't quite come out on the ice. Last night, Ottawa pummelled Toronto in a 5-0 pre-season game, without the benefit of their big names on the roster. No problem, though: the up and coming guys got the job done and prove that there's reason for the Ottawa faithful to look forward to better times- they're just not fully here yet.
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Mediocracy
Ottawa is more or less a mediocre city. Often described as ‘nice', a word used to describe nothing in particular, particularly nothing offensive or exciting, Ottawa and Ottawans are not used to anything special. The majority live in the same type of house, drive the same type of car and live the same type of quiet, family life that sleepy suburbs are famous for. It's not much...

It's been a saggy period for hockey-starved fans who are looking forward to a new season and there hasn't been a lot to report on the Free Agent front. It was for this reason that I was so heartened to read that Peter Regin will remain in Ottawa after narrowly avoiding arbitration talks for a two year contract. The loose ends are starting to be tied up as the end of the summer looms and while i...

If Bryan Murray is serious that this is the team that we will move ahead with as of now, July 2nd, a day after the free agent frenzy and the 143rd birthday of the great nation of Canada with the Queen barely cracking a smile, then here are a few predictions for how this season will play out:
Forwards Taking a Step Backwards
If it's true that Spezza's sticking around, get used to seeing his sad ...

Picking up Sergei Gonchar is an NHL style coup for any team- a coup that can only lose its luster when you consider the defensive situation of the team that picks him up. What should have been some of the greatest news for the Ottawa Senators fanbase ever heard has fallen somewhat flat given the team's current situation. Ottawa's greatest critics in the past few years has fallen squarely on the...

If the Ottawa Senators have a vision as to where the team is going, they're keeping it to themselves. For Ottawa Senators fans, there's the distinct impression that we're either near-sighted when it comes to the future or that maybe there's something that isn't being shared with us, because for the most part, we're a frustrated group.
Still spitting mad about Ottawa forsaking its prime number 1...